Executive View

In May 2011, WCET announced the receipt of funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to begin work on the Predictive Analytics Reporting Framework. Now, a federated dataset has been created and PAR researchers have already begun to analyze the data, looking for variables affecting student performance and success. Here, WCET Executive Director Ellen Wagner comments on this milestone for the PAR Framework and on plans to expand the database to increase opportunities for sharing predictive analytics more widely.

Both current and prospective students at the University of Arizona will have access to a new service that allows up-to-date tracking of the academic progress of all students at the university and provides detailed information of what is involved in pursuing individual majors.

The University of Missouri (MU) has created an $85,000 immersive lab to allow its undergraduate architectural studies students to visualize what their buildings and rooms will look like when they're actually built.

An expert in high performance computing has taken on the job of CIO for the University of Minnesota. Scott Studham, who will also have a vice president title, joins the 69,000-student, five-campus institution after serving for nearly three years as CIO at the University of Tennessee.

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